Changed color, placement of weapons, and level of pieces.
And while my MKI might appriciate all the attention, any feedback on the looks of the MKII and MKIV?
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FIREST0RM000
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really, they all look very similar, and for the most part, have the same problems. the design is just a little bit boring. I'd say you have the basics down, so now you need to play around in shipmaker for a while, and come up with some more interesting shapes and effects for your ships.And while my MKI might appriciate all the attention, any feedback on the looks of the MKII and MKIV?
You have potential, and if you spend a bit more time on your ships, you may go somewhere. This is good for first trys, and if you look around these forums, you will see super ultra mega death ships of DOOM, and other stuff.
Go for the other stuff.
Note: This is my own personal opinion. Do not take it as a fact. Fighters are awesome.
Go for the other stuff.
Note: This is my own personal opinion. Do not take it as a fact. Fighters are awesome.
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ArcaneDude
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Wait. We veteran shipbuilders?FIREST0RM000 wrote:alright, that last ship is what we veteran ship builders here call "bad parenting"
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Flether; not bad for a first try. I'd put the missiles farther inwards, though. They'll be easily destroyed, dangling there like that.
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In case you haven't noticed it or haven't read it yet, pressing F1 will give you a handy command list, including the shrinking of weapons as BC said... I don't dislike it, the later versions where you filled in the back and added engines are much better. I like what you did with the nose, but try to avoid using really dark colors, at least on the outer sections, unless your filling in an outlined area. Good job on listening to the advice and improving fairly quickly.
Lol @ arcane getting annoying by dangling weapons again! XDArcaneDude wrote: Flether; not bad for a first try. I'd put the missiles farther inwards, though. They'll be easily destroyed, dangling there like that.
Also, huuuuge improvement. I may not be a 'veteran' ship builder, but I know improvement when I see it, and that ship has most definitely improved since the first iteration. The only thing I see is the odd parenting error. Parenting is definitely the first thing you should check for once you finish a ship, as bad parenting can ruin any ship, no matter how nice it looks.
Okay, I now went on a pretty extensive remodeling of the MKI, including a little playing with sizing of weapons.
The long thing in the middle is three railguns stacked, making a so-called TAP, or Tactical Armor-Piercer (give me a break, it's 12:25 in the morning, better name pending).
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Is there any way to conveniently make it so that the different missile launchers ripple, instead of firing at the same time?
http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... EMODEL.rar
The long thing in the middle is three railguns stacked, making a so-called TAP, or Tactical Armor-Piercer (give me a break, it's 12:25 in the morning, better name pending).
*EDIT*
Is there any way to conveniently make it so that the different missile launchers ripple, instead of firing at the same time?
http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... EMODEL.rar
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Warrior of Anarchy
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Your ship inspired me, hope you don't mind...
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y201/J ... lether.png
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If you've got a long broadside ship, make all your missles identical but reduce their firing arc to like 10 or 15...Assuming your not shooting at something tiny, each launcher should register either a different part of the enemy ship, or register it at a different time as it passes through their arc. This worked very well on my broadside dreadnought and battlestar...
The other way is to slightly offset the fire rate, by like five or ten, so every other, or every third launcher fires at the same time.
I'm sure theres other ways but too out of it to think of them.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y201/J ... lether.png
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I think I get what you asking...like there an individual gunner controlling each one...There are two main ways I use...Flether wrote: Is there any way to conveniently make it so that the different missile launchers ripple, instead of firing at the same time?
If you've got a long broadside ship, make all your missles identical but reduce their firing arc to like 10 or 15...Assuming your not shooting at something tiny, each launcher should register either a different part of the enemy ship, or register it at a different time as it passes through their arc. This worked very well on my broadside dreadnought and battlestar...
The other way is to slightly offset the fire rate, by like five or ten, so every other, or every third launcher fires at the same time.
I'm sure theres other ways but too out of it to think of them.
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Warrior of Anarchy; Yes, the guns are modded, but for higher damage w/ LONG reload. Yes, the TAPs have high damage, and the missile batteries fire 60 missiles in about 5 seconds, but the TAP has a reload of around 20 seconds (!), and I'm going to reduce the missile damage and increase the reload from 10 seconds to 15 seconds.
The whole Revenant series is built around smaller, hard hitting ships, even if that means a long reload, or a weak hull (in the case of the MKIII and MKIV, both of which lack both deflectors and the ablative armor the MKI and MKII carry).
jwa8402; I don't mind at all, infact I'm honored, as that ship is just plain cool ^^
No, I mean that the missile launchers fire one by one. So that if we have 5 launchers in a row, the front one fires, followed shortly by the one after, and so on. I think that should work with changing the reload, but last I tried that on a railgun-wall ship, that ended up a little off and looked just weird instead of cool.
But cool idea for the broadside.
Ixranin; Yeah, that's what I mean. Somehow the missiles got rippled when I was weapon testing, and it just looked plain EVIL with 60 missiles flying at the enemy that way, wish I had screenshot it =P
And to give a short version incase you're too lazy to read everything I wrote above:
Modded weapons with high damage, long range, LONG reload. I want my missiles to fire in sequence, which I've failed on getting to work previously. And jwa8402's ship was cool.
The whole Revenant series is built around smaller, hard hitting ships, even if that means a long reload, or a weak hull (in the case of the MKIII and MKIV, both of which lack both deflectors and the ablative armor the MKI and MKII carry).
jwa8402; I don't mind at all, infact I'm honored, as that ship is just plain cool ^^
No, I mean that the missile launchers fire one by one. So that if we have 5 launchers in a row, the front one fires, followed shortly by the one after, and so on. I think that should work with changing the reload, but last I tried that on a railgun-wall ship, that ended up a little off and looked just weird instead of cool.
But cool idea for the broadside.
Ixranin; Yeah, that's what I mean. Somehow the missiles got rippled when I was weapon testing, and it just looked plain EVIL with 60 missiles flying at the enemy that way, wish I had screenshot it =P
And to give a short version incase you're too lazy to read everything I wrote above:
Modded weapons with high damage, long range, LONG reload. I want my missiles to fire in sequence, which I've failed on getting to work previously. And jwa8402's ship was cool.
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give each one a slightly bigger range than the other ones like the back one having a range of 5 and the one infront of it 6 and so on
(Same launchers not a different row)
and if you want em to fire like this .1 .2 .3 then change the reload times
aswell i dunno how though butt .3 .2 .1 that should work
(Same launchers not a different row)
and if you want em to fire like this .1 .2 .3 then change the reload times
aswell i dunno how though butt .3 .2 .1 that should work
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